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What is the little padlock symbol near every Visual Studio tab?


Sometimes on the right side of any Visual Studio tab there will be a little padlock symbol. What is it?

I thought it was something like source-control, but my solution is not checked in source-control.

EDIT: Thank you for your answers so far, BUT I can edit the files. When I am in debug mode it has also this padlock sign, but when I am holding my mouse over the tab I can read "Read-Only". Not in debug-mode (normal edit mode, nothing running), there is also the padlock symbol. But when I hold my mouse over the tab there is no readonly text.

Is there an other definition of the padlock sign? Or how can I see the padlock sign while editing my normal source code (and no debugging running)?


Solution

  • It indicates that the file is read-only.